Submissions

Author Guidelines

General information

All submissions are made online, through the journal’s homepage. Authors as well as reviewers need to register with the journal in order to submit or review articles. Once you have a user account you can communicate with the editors or subeditors through the journal platform.

Please note that Lychnos does not publish manuscripts that have been previously published, or articles that have been submitted to or are being under review for another journal.

By submitting manuscripts to Lychnos authors consent to their work being published open access with a CCBY 4.0 license. The authors retain copyright for the papers published in Lychnos.

Submissions that do not adhere to the guidelines stated below may be returned to authors.

Article format
Articles written for the open or thematic section should be 8000­–9500 words long, including spaces and endnotes. Thematic special issues can include other formats, see current CfP for more detailed instructions.

The submission file can be in Open Office or Microsoft Word format.

Do not format your text beyond what is necessary before you send it in. All text should be in Times New Roman, 12 points (this includes the titles). Use a spacing of 1,5. Please paginate the document but otherwise leave the header and footer empty.

Name the file using the following template: the title’s first five words+ underscore + current year. For example: Arctic visions in the press_2023

Anonymisation
Lychnos employs the principle of double-blind peer review and authors should ensure that their prepared manuscripts are anonymised as far as possible before submitting them. This involves eliminating author information that would make it possible to identify you as well as replacing self-citations and references to your own published work with “Anonymised reference”. Author information and references can be amended after the peer review process.  

Abstract and keywords
All articles regardless of language must include an abstract in English. The abstract should be max 150 words including spaces. If your article is written in a language other than English, begin the abstract by translating the article title into English. 

Provide 5-8 keywords for the article.

Endnotes

Sources are cited using consecutively numbered endnotes, not footnotes or in-text citations. Notes should be used primarily for citations, not lengthy comments. No separate bibliography is needed.

If you cite multiple sources in the same endnote they are separated by semicolon.

If a book, edited volume, journal article, etc. has more than one author you list their full names, with the last name preceded by an “and”. For example: Alexander Berkman, Henry Bauer, and Carl Nold

For works with four or more authors, cite only the name of the first-listed author, followed by et al. For example: Sverker Sörlin et al.,

Use capitalization of English titles.

The reference style used is a slightly adapted version of the Chicago Manual of Style, 17^th edition (Notes and Bibliography Style, not Author-Date Style). https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html#cg-chapter

If you are using a citation manager, like EndNote or Zotero, please change the endnotes to plain text before submission.

The first time an author’s work is referenced in text, the full reference should be written out in its entirety. For subsequent references to the same work, a short version of the reference is used. Do not use ibid.

Many online journal articles (and sometimes books) list a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). When applicable, add the DOI number at the end of your reference.

Book:
Full reference example: Shereen Ratnagar, Trading Encounters: From the Euphrates to the Indus in the Bronze Age (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004), 23.

Short form: Ratnagar, Trading Encounters, 24.

If a book is available in more than one format, you should cite the version you consulted.

Chapter in edited book:
Jonatan Samuelsson, “The State of Tooth Decay: Dental Knowledge, Medical Policy and Fluoridation in Sweden, 1952–1962” in Cultures of Oral Health: Discourses, Practices and Theory, eds. Claire L. Jones and Barry J. Gibson (Routledge, 2022), E-book, DOI: 10.4324/9781003047674-17

Short form: Samuelsson, “Tooth Decay”, 205.

Journal article:
Christoffer Basse Eriksen, “Magnifying the First Points of Life: Harvey and Descartes on Generation and Scale”, History of Science 60, no. 4 (August 2022): 525, DOI: 10.1177/00732753211033476

Short version:
Basse Eriksen, “Magnifying”, 2022.

Newspaper or magazine article:
Rebecca Mead, “The Prophet of Dystopia”, New Yorker, April 17, 2017, 43.

Short form: Mead, “Dystopia”, 43.

Archival material:
Full identification of most unpublished material usually requires giving the title, type and date of the item (and author, where applicable), series title and number, name of the collection, and name of the depository, in that order.

Digital sources:
When citing websites or  sources in digital databases, include access date parenthetically at the end of your citation.

Illustrations
Every image needs to be numbered (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.) and be accompanied by a caption describing the image and clearly stating the source of the image. Any relevant information about copyright and permission to publish should also be clearly stated in the caption.

Refer to the image in the article text by specifying the image within parentheses (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, etc.). Figures, illustrations and tables are placed within the text at appropriate points.

Authors are responsible for obtaining the necessary permission from copyright holders for the use (or fees) of illustrations. Normally, no more than two illustrations per article is accepted. For articles being assessed for publication, images in low resolution are optional but appreciated. When the article has been approved, the author needs to provide original images or high resolution image files (jpg or tiff).  

Language style guide

Lychnos publishes articles in in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and English. Use British spelling if your manuscript is written in English.

Authors should make sure to use clear and correct language. Authors of manuscripts written in English are responsible for and need to make sure that the text is proofread by a skilled language editor before the final draft.

Block quotations are used for quotations longer than 40 words, they should be indented and free from quotation marks.

Quotations from non-English sources should be provided in their original language in the endnotes, identifying the translator, for example “author’s translation”.

English quotation marks are used in English manuscripts, Swedish quotation marks in Swedish manuscripts. Use double quotation marks except for “quotes ‘within’ a quote”.

Periods and commas are placed after the quotation marks , but before the note number.

Articles can have a title as well as a subtitle. In case of a subtitle, the title and subtitle are written on two separate rows and distinguished by bold and Italic type respectively. A maximum of two heading levels are allowed within the article. Please use bold type for any higher and Italic type for any lower heading level. In case of only one heading level, use Italics. The total amount of headlines in the article should not exceed 10.

Acknowledgements and research sponsorship
Acknowledgements and a declaration of research sponsorship (when applicable) can be added at the very end of the article.

Affiliation and information about the author(s)
When submitting the manuscript through the journal platform, authors should contribute with the following information: Name, title, residence (department/university), country and email address. This information should not be included in the actual manuscript before submitting it, instead it can be added in the journal submission system.

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Book reviews

Lychnos reviews research monographs and edited books in the history of science and ideas and aims to give a comprehensive overview of new and relevant publications of the previous year. An emphasis has traditionally been put on monitoring and reviewing Swedish publications in particular, but the journal does not exclude other new books that can be considered relevant for intellectual historians and historians of science and ideas in Sweden.

Book reviews undergo editorial review, but not anonymous peer review. Reviews should be submitted through the online journal platform. Choose the section “Reviews”. Submit the file in a Word-document (.doc or .docx). Name the file as follows: Reviewer’s last name + underscore + last name of author of the book being reviewed.
Example: Matthews_Haffenden.doc

Books: Reviews can be written in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and English. The review should not exceed 1000 words.

Book reviews should not have a title other than the title of the work that is being reviewed. The review should begin with a header including the following information about the reviewed work:

First name Last name: Title. Subtitle. City: Publisher, publishing year. Number of pages. ISBN xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x, Bound/Paperback.

Example: Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being. A Study in the History of an Idea. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1936. ix+382 pp. ISBN 978-067-436-150-8, Bound.

Use Times New Roman 12 points and a spacing of 1,5. Please paginate the document but otherwise leave the header and footer empty. Do not use autocorrect or auto formats and style sheets. Do not use footnotes or endnotes.

If you want to give page references to the reviewed book in your review, do so by giving the number within a parenthesis (and without the “p” before the number).

Example: “Jane Doe takes the arguments given by the members of the board into consideration (33–34), but focuses primarily on the critique voiced against it (34–39).”

In case you want to reference other books or articles than the one discussed, give the whole reference directly in text.

Your personal information should include the following: Name, title, residence (department/ university), country and email address.

Dissertations: Reviews of dissertations are published in a special section of the journal and they can be written in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and English. Dissertation reviews should be submitted using the online journal platform. Choose the section “Dissertation reviews”. Submit the file in a Word-document (.doc or .docx). Name the file as follows: Reviewer´s last name + underscore + last name of author of the book being reviewed.
Example: Matthews_Haffenden.doc

The review should not exceed 2500 words.

The review should have a title other than the title of the dissertation and should begin with a header including the following information about the reviewed work:

First name Last name: Title. Subtitle. City: Publisher, publishing year. Number of pages. ISBN xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x, Bound/Paperback.

Example: Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being. A Study in the History of an Idea. Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1936. ix+382 pp. ISBN 978-067-436-150-8, Bound.

Use Times New Roman 12 points and a spacing of 1,5. Please paginate the document but otherwise leave the header and footer empty. Do not use autocorrect or auto formats and style sheets. Do not use footnotes or endnotes.

If you want to give page references to the reviewed book in your review, do so by giving the number within a parenthesis (and without the “p” before the number).

Example: “Jane Doe takes the arguments given by the members of the board into consideration (33–34), but focuses primarily on the critique voiced against it (34–39).”

In case you want to reference other books or articles than the one discussed, give the whole reference directly in text.

Your personal information should include the following: Name, title, residence (department/ university), country and email address.